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Turning Meeting CNC *LINK*

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Turning Meeting CNC *LINK*

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Turning Meeting CNC *LINK*

Don Orr

Saturday was our annual CNC day at the Mohawk Valley Woodturners meeting. Our founder works at a stair parts manufacturer and we gather there to make a project each year. We come up with a plan, the programmer does his thing, and we go and crank out pieces. In the past we have done rolling pins, pepper mills and walking sticks (with spiral routed in). This year was a small table lamp. The video is just the body -I did not record the base part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AUcuU62Ljs

He also shows us how they produce a newel post on one of their production machines. The workpiece rotates slowly as the cutter head spins fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIY5sHMTpM

I wish I could turn like that!


Lamp Body

Re: Turning Meeting CNC *LINK*

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Re: Turning Meeting CNC

Mike Brazeau

Fascinating! The cutters on the lamp body - do they cut like a slew of sorts?

Re: Turning Meeting CNC *LINK*

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Re: Turning Meeting CNC

Tom Albrecht

I used to have a great side job in Spindle turning. I did everything from reproducing a single broken baluster to making 12, 20, 30, I think 75 duplicates was my largest job. This was all done by hand with a story stick. I live in an area (Chicago suburbs) with a lot of older homes. These are homes where you cannot find a matching baluster or newel post at the Home Depot. I frequently got my best jobs from contractors doing a renovation or doing an addition on an older home and trying to maintain the original architecture. If you measured my finished work with a micrometer the discrepancies would be pretty obvious, but to the naked eye, not so. As a matter of fact, when I was occasionally given more that one sample from an older home, the discrepancies were obvious there--- meaning the originals were hand turned.

Then, some guy up north in Wisconsin got a CNC machine of some sort, and at my $90/hour rate I can't come close if you need more that 4 duplicates.

Thanks for the links-- I was ready to get back into bowl turning anyhow!

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watch this one, CNC bench grinder? *LINK*

Dick Coers

Speaking of CNC, would you call this a CNC bench grinder? Or a CNC lathe? Or both? They don't mention the video is sped up until the hear the voices. Sure sounds like a saw blade on a bench grinder. Crazy!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpcewZGRIAw